Who won and lost the week in Vermont news and politics? Behold, The Scoreboard for the week of Friday, May 3.
Winners:
Fletcher Allen Health Care — Nothing’ll make your week quite like the gift of a $13 million property.
Jane Kitchell & Tim Ashe — The approps and finance chairs got their budget and tax bills through the Senate this week relatively unscathed. Both bills picked up bipartisan support from a handful of Republicans each — and both earned nay votes from Sen. Anthony Pollina (P/D-Washington), who evidently isn’t going along to get along.
Labor — They lost battles this week over unionizing states’ attorneys and requiring newspaper bosses to pay unemployment insurance. But on the biggest labor issues of the session — “Fair Share” and creating a home health care workers union — they won big.
Patrick Leahy — Vermont’s senior U.S. senator hits the crème de la crème Sunday talk show this week with an appearance on NBC’s “Meet The Press.” But when will we next see him back in Vermont?
Seven Days — For coining the term, “flatlander cows.”
Losers after the break…
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